[The Evolution of Modern Medicine by William Osler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Evolution of Modern Medicine CHAPTER V -- THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN MEDICINE 21/41
Anyone who wishes to have a picture of the medical schools in Europe in the first few years of the century, should read the account of the travels of Joseph Frank of Vienna.( 10) The description of Corvisart is of a pioneer in clinical teaching whose method remains in vogue today in France--the ward visit, followed by a systematic lecture in the amphitheatre.
There were still lectures on Hippocrates three times a week, and bleeding was the principal plan of treatment: one morning Frank saw thirty patients, out of one hundred and twelve, bled! Corvisart was the strong clinician of his generation, and his accurate studies on the heart were among the first that had concentrated attention upon a special organ.
To him, too, is due the reintroduction of the art of percussion in internal disease discovered by Auenbrugger in 1761. (10) Joseph Frank: Reise nach Paris (etc.), Wien, 1804-05. The man who gave the greatest impetus to the study of scientific medicine at this time was Bichat, who pointed out that the pathological changes in disease were not so much in organs as in tissues.
His studies laid the foundation of modern histology.
He separated the chief constituent elements of the body into various tissues possessing definite physical and vital qualities.
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